Facebook Is Down

**TL;DR:** Facebook Is Down

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If you tried signing into Facebook this morning—or perhaps Instagram or Messenger—and weren't able to, you aren't alone. A lot of users are finding it difficult to access some of Meta's key apps Friday morning. At this time, it appears as if Meta is running into service issues, meaning Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger may be down. m. ET—though I'm not currently able to pull up either Facebook or Instagram's Downdetector pages at the moment.

There may be so many users trying to report these sites at once that Downdetector is struggling to keep up, or perhaps there's a wider outage affecting Downdetector as well. According to Meta's official status site , only Facebook Ads Manager is experiencing issues. This site appears to track only business-facing Meta products, however, so Meta's main products appear to be left off the list. In any case, I will keep this article updated with the latest news regarding Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.

If this is like most outages, Meta will have these services back up and running shortly.

Source: Lifehacker

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